Music Styles category: 7119 books
Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars
Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Exploring Peru’s lively music industry and the studio producers, radio DJs, and program directors that drive it, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars is a fascinating account of the deliberate development of artistic taste. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted...
The New Music Theater
Seeing the Voice, Hearing the Body
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
Alternatives to grand opera and the popular musical can be traced at least as far back as the 1912 premiere of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire." Yet this ongoing history has never been properly sorted out, its complex ideas and philosophy as well as musical and theatrical achievements never brought...
Country Music Originals
The Legends and the Lost
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Graced by more than 200 illustrations, many of them seldom seen and some never before published, this sparkling volume offers vivid portraits of the men and women who created country music, the artists whose lives and songs formed the rich tradition from which so many others have drawn inspiration....
Listening to Rap
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Over the past four decades, rap and hip hop culture have taken a central place in popular music both in the United States and around the world. Listening to Rap: An Introduction enables students to understand the historical context, cultural impact, and unique musical characteristics of this essential...
Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman
Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Sing Us a Song, Piano Woman: Female Fans and the Music of Tori Amos explores the many-layered relationships female fans build with feminist musicians in general and with Tori Amos, in particular. Using original interview research with more than forty fans of Tori Amos, multiple observer-participant...
by Herbert Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Herbert Howells's Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis for the Gloucester service is one of his most popular choral settings. This sheet music is arranged for SATB Choir and Organ.
Herbert Howells was a renowned English composer of church music in the Anglican evensong tradition, best known for his...
Luther's Liturgical Music
Principles and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Martin Luther's relationship to music has been largely downplayed, yet music played a vital role in Luther's life -- and he in turn had a deep and lasting effect on Christian hymnody. In Luther's Liturgical Music Robin Leaver comprehensively explores these connections. Replete with tables, figures,...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
10 Classical Pieces With Clarinet/Piano Duets
This is a Clarinet sheet music book with 10 classical sheet music pieces. Each piece has two easy arrangements, one for solo Clarinet, the other for Clarinet and Piano when playing duets. The piano parts can be played on piano or electronic keyboard, they...
J. S. Bach's 'Leipzig' Chorale Preludes
Music, Text, Theology
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
In 2007, the great Bach scholar Anne Leahy died at the age of 46. She was a leading light in Bach studies and lecturer at the Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) Conservatory of Music and Drama. Posthumously edited by renowned Bach scholar Robin A. Leaver, Leahy's dissertation research forms the...
Andreas Werckmeister’s Musicalische Paradoxal-Discourse
A Well-Tempered Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Andreas Werckmeister (1645 – 1706), a late seventeenth-century German Lutheran organist, composer, and music theorist, is the last great advocate and defender of the Great Tradition in music, with its assumptions that music is a divine gift to humanity, spiritually charged yet rationally accessible,...
by Lee Gabor
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This song is a tribute to the country music performed at the Grand Old Opry in Nashville, TN. It was written in the 1970s and is in the Key of F. Lyrics are in the sheet music and there also is a separate "Lyrics Only" sheet for vocalists to use.
A Language of Song
Journeys in the Musical World of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2009
In A Language of Song, Samuel Charters—one of the pioneering collectors of African American music—writes of a trip to West Africa where he found “a gathering of cultures and a continuing history that lay behind the flood of musical expression [he] encountered everywhere . . . from Brazil to...
The Foundations of Rock
From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
A comprehensive introduction to the inner workings of rock music, The Foundations of Rock goes back to the heart of the music itself from the time of its birth through the end of classic rock. Walter Everett expertly takes readers through all aspects of the music and its lyrics, leading fans and listeners...
by Michael Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
10 Classical Pieces With Clarinet/Piano DuetsThis is a Clarinet sheet music book with 10 classical sheet music pieces. Each piece has two easy arrangements, one for solo Clarinet, the other for Clarinet and Piano when playing duets. The piano parts can be played on piano or electronic keyboard, they...